MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Nov. 15 2008 – Algenta Technologies, LLC, a leading data management consultancy, was invited to attend the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Standard’s Working Meeting on Advanced Topics in Usability and Interoperability – Best Practices meeting at Schloss Dagstuhl in Wadern, Germany. Algenta leveraged the experience gained during the development of DDI 3 standard and its Colectica platform when contributing to a set of best practice papers produced at the conference. Mary Vardigan, Director of the DDI Alliance stated the conference was “a major step in providing instructional materials for application of DDI 3.0 in real life situations”. Algenta hopes these papers will help adopters of the standard and allow for greater interoperability of software applications that can process DDI3.
About Algenta Technologies
Founded in 1999, Algenta Technologies is a research and development firm specializing in data management, integration services, and Internet technologies for government, academic, and business computing. The company offers a range of highly specific products and services designed to give power to people through easy integration and access to data. http://www.algenta.com
About the DDI Alliance
The Data Documentation Initiative is an international effort to establish a standard for technical documentation describing social science data.
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